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Article: Blue-collar green; Atlantic Station: leading from the top for a bottoms-up result.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- April 1, 2006
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Two years ago, Congress was in the midst of trying to pass a major energy bill. During the ensuing debate, an obscure tax provision that provided incentives for the inclusion of sustainable and energy-efficient building technologies in new construction received undue and negative attention. The concept of the provision was simple: to provide an incentive to incorporate environmental design and construction concepts into buildings of every type--office, retail, residential and hotel. Add them at a large enough scale and a potential paradigm shift could occur, both economically and practically. The result? Bring bleeding-edge and expensive technology into the mainstream of ...
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Article: Retail and entertainment district of Atlantic ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Atlanta, GA);
October 16, 2005 ;
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... ... Pendered Oct. 16--The opening of Atlantic Station's retail and entertainment district ... Jim Jacoby, the master developer of Atlantic Station. "The right players were in place ... sides. Without all that happening, Atlantic Station wouldn't have happened." Billed ...
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